Random Drift versus Selection in Academic Vocabulary: An Evolutionary Analysis of Published Keywords
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Random Drift versus Selection in Academic Vocabulary: An Evolutionary Analysis of Published Keywords
The evolution of vocabulary in academic publishing is characterized via keyword frequencies recorded in the ISI Web of Science citations database. In four distinct case-studies, evolutionary analysis of keyword frequency change through time is compared to a model of random copying used as the null hypothesis, such that selection may be identified against it. The case studies from the physical s...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003057